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Re: TT-3: shooting drawers with pencils and pawns (ADA)
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------------------ Not all carpenters have flat pencils.
Judge Philip F. Howerton, Jr.
2812 Sunset Drive
Charlotte, NC 28209
"To be proud, to be brave, to be free." Vladimir Nabokov
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From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: TT-3: shooting drawers with pencils and pawns (ADA) (fwd) (fwd)
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> ------------------ 'a very plain, round ... old pencil'
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> Carpenters use a specialised sort of pencil, not round
> at all, but flat; I'm surprised VN didn't know this, if
> indeed he didn't.
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> 'rodlet'
> VN uses the suffix -let a lot to coin words of his own;
> I'll be saying something more about this presently.
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> 'Alas, the solid pencil itself as fingered briefly by Hugh
> Person still somehow eludes us! But *he* won't, oh no.'
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> I'd be interested to hear what anyone else makes of this;
> my own understanding of it is that 'they' can't manipulate
> physical objects. That Hugh won't 'elude' them, then, makes
> them sound oddly sinister.
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> --Peter Hayes
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